The Nursery "Alice"

By Lewis Carroll

A seven-year-old girl named Alice gets bored and follows a white rabbit that runs past her. She follows it into a rabbit hole and falls a long way to an unusual hall with many locked doors of all sizes. After the fall, Alice finds herself in a fantasy world inhabited by strange creatures. The story follows Alice's adventures in the place and her interactions with the characters of Wonderland. The Nursery "Alice" is a shorter and simpler version of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll. This creative retelling resembles a traditional children's book more closely. It's based more on wonder rather than confusion. Carroll wrote it as if the story was read aloud by someone conversing with the child listener. It contains many remarks by the writer, pointing out details in the illustrations and asking questions. The pictures from the original book were enlarged and colored to interest the children. With this unique writing style, Lewis Carroll kept the small children engaged and made them come back to read or listen to more of it.

• Language: English
• Publisher: DigiCat
• Release date: Jun 2, 2022
• ISBN: 8596547038689

Lewis Carroll

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832-1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, published Alice's Adventures in Wonderland in 1865 and its sequel, Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There, in 1871. Considered a master of the genre of literary nonsense, he is renowned for his ingenious wordplay and sense of logic, and his highly original vision.

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Lewis Carroll

The Nursery Alice

EAN 8596547038689

DigiCat, 2022

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PREFACE.

I. THE WHITE RABBIT.

II. HOW ALICE GREW TALL.

III. THE POOL OF TEARS.

IV. THE CAUCUS-RACE.

V. BILL, THE LIZARD.

VI. THE DEAR LITTLE PUPPY.

VII. THE BLUE CATERPILLAR.

VIII. THE PIG-BABY.

IX. THE CHESHIRE-CAT.

X. THE MAD TEA-PARTY.

XI. THE QUEEN’S GARDEN.

XII. THE LOBSTER-QUADRILLE.

XIII. WHO STOLE THE TARTS?

XIV. THE SHOWER OF CARDS.

AN EASTER GREETING TO EVERY CHILD WHO LOVES ALICE.

CHRISTMAS GREETINGS.

PREFACE.

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(ADDRESSED TO ANY MOTHER.)

I have

reason to believe that Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland has been read by some hundreds of English Children, aged from Five to Fifteen: also by Children, aged from Fifteen to Twenty-five: yet again by Children, aged from Twenty-five to Thirty-five: and even by Children—for there are such—Children in whom no waning of health and strength, no weariness of the solemn mockery, and the gaudy glitter, and the hopeless misery, of Life has availed to parch the pure fountain of joy that wells up in all child-like hearts—Children of a certain age, whose tale of years must be left untold, and buried in respectful silence.

And my ambition now is (is it a vain one?) to be read by Children aged from Nought to Five. To be read? Nay, not so! Say rather to be thumbed, to be cooed over, to be dogs’-eared, to be rumpled, to be kissed, by the illiterate, ungrammatical, dimpled Darlings, that fill your Nursery with merry uproar, and your inmost heart of hearts with a restful gladness!

Such, for instance, as a child I once knew, who—having been carefully instructed that one of any earthly thing was enough for any little girl; and that to ask for two buns, two oranges, two of anything, would certainly bring upon her the awful charge of being greedy—was found one morning sitting up in bed, solemnly regarding her two little naked feet, and murmuring to herself, softly and penitently, deedy!

Eastertide, 1889.

White Rabbit

I.

THE WHITE RABBIT.

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Once

upon a time, there was a little girl called Alice: and she had a very curious dream.

Would you like to hear what it was that she dreamed about?

Well, this was the first thing that happened. A White Rabbit came running by, in a great hurry; and, just as it passed Alice, it